Xuzhou Sachet

The custom of making and wearing sachets, a typical product of ancient Chinese traditional culture marked by “men tilling the farm and women weaving”, has lasted for thousands of years in China. Xuzhou Sachets, a tradition form of fine arts and a national intangible cultural heritage of Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, are famous for their novel and simple shapes, lifelike appearances, gorgeous and eye-catching brocade colors, festive and auspicious themes and implication, exquisite and diverse embroidery patterns, refreshing and pleasant natural fragrance…. Its craftsmanship is especially famous for the embroidery on the sachets, revealing the wisdom of the Han people and their desire for a happy life. The sachets have exquisite, diverse, vivid, and colorful patterns, dominated by simply exaggerated patterns of flowers and plants with folk auspicious words. Warm colors, such as bright red, orange, yellow, are preferred to highlight the gorgeous beauty. In addition, sachets also have medicinal value, which is one of the main reasons why sachets have been popular all the time.